Brad, a top footballer, sits in the bleachers watching the game. He cannot believe his eyes. He has come to watch his friend Edgar play, and Edgar is the worst football player he has ever seen. He stands around, chewing gum. When he runs at all, he runs like…

Using a test of compressing a 1 GB file with AppleArchive, measurements of power used by core clusters show how efficient using the E cores really is.

A few months ago I started on a home automation journey to make the house smart with helpful and practical home automation improvements. The next step in this journey is to make the traditional light switches in the house smart.

Heroku Status provides the current status and incident history report for the Heroku platform.

One must imagine Sisyphus practicing leetcode mediums...

Our Q1 results are in:

102M nights booked
$1.5B revenue (70% Y/Y)
$(19)M net loss
$229M Adjusted EBITDA
$1.2B free cash flow

2 years ago, our business dropped 80%, our IPO was put on hold, and some didn’t think we’d make it at all.

Here’s how we turned…

...and some thoughts on servers in the modern age

Have too much static data? Paul has a idea of moving some of it to a datalake. He provides a walk-through of setting up Parquet with Postgres using the parquet_fdw.

As if it were becoming impossible to climb out of the hole, Boeing lost again. It started 2022 still trying to come to terms with three years of debacle and wit

As a backend developer at a mobile app company, a common task was migrating a database schema.This could be to improve query performance, change column ...

If drones are to take over any of the numerous tasks they are supposed to, they’re going to have to get a lot smarter — and learn to work together. In a demonstration of both of these things, Chinese researchers show off a swarm of drones collectively navigating…

A modern classic that's almost 30 years old, let's find out how it works!

x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser - copy/v86

Introduction The GitLab team handbook is the central repository for how we run the company. Printed, it consists of over 2,000 pages of text. As part of our value of being transparent the handbook is open to the world, and we welcome feedback. Please make…

In the latest Numberphile video , Marcus du Sautoy introduced me to the notion of n+7 writing/poetry. Take an existing text, and replace the nouns with words seven places advanced in the dictionary . I decided to apply this treatment to the most famous…

There’s a roundabout in Garthdee in Aberdeen that’s home to a colony of rabbits. It’s a very busy junction in a fairly industrial area with large shopping centres and building sup…